Category: reconciliation

I grew up with traditional black Baptist revivals. Over the years, I’ve been to various conferences and services of different races and denominations. No matter what the event, there always seemed to be a push to get some sort of “high.” Perhaps from the keynote speaker, music concert, prayer session, something was supposed to give … More Ancient Christianity and Afro-American Conference 2018: A Sober Joy

This is why God does not open His hand; because we have closed up our hearts to our brothers and sisters. This is why the fields are arid; because love has dried up. St Basil, In Time of Famine and Drought (1) It is not hard to find finger-pointing from both sides of the … More Reconciliation On Social Justice: Nineveh’s Repentance

For our money is the Lord’s, however we may have gathered it. If we provide for those in need, we shall obtain plenty. This is why God allowed you to have more; not to waste it on prostitutes, drink, fancy food, expensive clothes, and all other kinds of indolence, but for you to distribute to … More Reconciliation On Wealth and Poverty: We Own Nothing

Now all who believed were together, and had all things in common. and sold their possessions and goods and divided them among all, as anyone had need. … Now the multitude of those who believed were of one heart and one soul; neither did anyone say that any of the thins he possessed was his … More Reconciliation On Social Justice: A Society Within A Society

Shall I show you another bed? I mean Jacob’s. He had bear ground underneath him and a stone under his head. For this reason, he saw the spiritual Rock and the ladder where the angels were ascending and descending. St. John Chrysostom, First Sermon on Lazarus and the Rich Man Jacob was a deceiver who … More Reconciliation On Wealth and Poverty: Jacob’s Soldierly Comfort

Tomorrow is the end of the road (I hope) to the most contentious presidential campaign of my lifetime. Many things have already been said about both of the major party candidates, the question of why third parties are not given an equal public platform, and how some groups will respond if the results do not … More Reconciliation: Ambassadors of the Greater Kingdom